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by implements 3y ago
3. Don’t panic if the level takes a while to load. (Gleaned from the John Romero play through on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIl_TqFJNO8 - there’s some UI config tips there, too)
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by implements 3y ago
If you’ve still got an insulated hot water tank with an electric immersion heater just dump excess solar generated electricity into that - you can always treat yourself to a good soak in hot bath!
93.
by implements 3y ago
Acrylic has a compressive yield strength of 95 MPa, which is the sort of pressure you’d find at around 9000m under the ocean. Perhaps the way it was designed and mounted meant that simple crushing was enough to crack it? https://
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by implements 3y ago
It’s not really “weird” - the design allowed the crew to leave the submersible unassisted when it was on the surface, which would be optimal for safety. The tunnel provided a route from the crew sphere to the top of the float. During the di
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by implements 3y ago
It’s an interesting question, but mechanical rotor encryption machines fell out of favour reasonably quickly after WW2 (early 1960s?) - which suggests that even with the limited computing resources of the time they were no longer secure ie
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by implements 3y ago
> Likewise, sex and gender were always seen as one and the same and interchangeable. They’re often used interchangeably, but they’re two separate concepts: Sex is the body’s reproductive role - males produce sperm and inseminate females
97.
by implements 3y ago
Gametes, chromosomes and morphology - usually the first two are enough to determine 99.9r% of people as unambiguously male or female. The situation isn’t helped by Americans often using the word gender as a direct substitution for the word
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by implements 3y ago
Grumbles something about standard computer power cables (IEC 60320 C13) not being ‘kettle leads’ (IEC 60320 C15) … Though you can use actual high-temp rated kettle leads if you like - they fit and are safe in C14 sockets.
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by implements 3y ago
Farks discussion of today’s Reddit Blackout: https://www.fark.com/comments/12887520/Reddit-to-get-drunk-o...
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by implements 3y ago
> They also had very strong, armoured doors, certainly was quite well isolated from strangers with an urge to grab a microphone and were buried in the core of the building. I got the impression they had half an eye to "This is the B
101.
by implements 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks_ship - Britain is attempting to use these to house refugees / migrants for processing, to much NIMBY resistance in the often affluent and tourist areas earmarked fo
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by implements 3y ago
At constant altitude. I believe Concorde was actually more fuel efficient per passenger mile than a 747 when flying Mach 2 up near 60,000ft where the air was very thin, but as it took half the flight’s fuel simply to get that high and that
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by implements 3y ago
Isn’t this exactly what you’d expect to happen given Twitter has become a raging dumpster fire and Meta has enough networking effect to get a Twitter clone off the ground? File under: “Obvious things to do when you think about it”, really.
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by implements 3y ago
I’ve worked through chapter one of SICP, and whereas I can admire the purity and kind of ‘belly feel’ how good Lisp can be it’s really painful translating expressions into pre-fix and having to do all the iteration using recursion.
105.
by implements 3y ago
“Brief downpour in Karachi turns weather pleasant.”
106.
by implements 3y ago
Not an electrician, but yes (I think). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power
107.
by implements 3y ago
America is 120v now, I believe - and many houses have a centre-tapped neutral supply [1] which means they actually can have 240v outlets in garages, workshops, utility rooms (etc) for high power devices. [1] https://electronics.s
108.
by implements 3y ago
<Dusts off Ham Licence> Anyone can use amateur frequencies in a genuine “no other communication options available” emergency, if I remember the regulations correctly. Edit: “§ 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property. No provi
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by implements 3y ago
> Can anyone shed light on what the weapons would be? That’s one of those “I can imagine dozens of terrible applications, but I’m not going to say anything which gives people ideas” questions.
110.
by implements 3y ago
Wasn’t she ‘boot-strapped’ by having had both for the first 19 months of her life? - Presumably this gave her an internal model of the world on to which she could map touch perceptions and language concepts. https://en.wikipedia.
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by implements 4y ago
Thanks very much for the extra info.
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by implements 4y ago
They are - I believe they’re electric rather than electronic, and theoretically can be powered by a hand crank. They also use a neat trick of a tube filled with ball bearings with a one ball gap so only one key can be pressed at a time (it
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by implements 4y ago
> Over here the government passed draconian anti-abortion laws, but that didn't have an immediate effect. Other things, like economic uncertainty were the main driver. Female people’s wombs don’t belong to the State. It shouldn’t be
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by implements 4y ago
It has British sub-cultural roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker_(subculture) During the 1950s, they were known as "Ton-Up boys" because doing a ton is English slang for driving at a speed of 100 mph
115.
by implements 4y ago
Led Zep might be worth a try, too.
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by implements 4y ago
> I almost exclusively (On the rare occasion I use paper, mostly as a prop to look professional ... Yellow legal writing pads were good for that, back in the day.
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by implements 4y ago
Thing is, they say “Read the FAQ” - and if you actually do read and follow the FAQ then you can do what you want 99% of the time. For example, couldn’t access the internet using WiFi and wired Ethernet at the same time - spent hours fiddlin
118.
by implements 4y ago
Yeah, DNS over TLS using unwind on OpenBSD - never had any problems with their service.
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by implements 4y ago
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/189/graphic-tempe... ”The amount of solar energy Earth receives has followed the Sun’s natural 11-year cycle of small ups and downs, with no net increase since the 1950s
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by implements 4y ago
Aside: Hoovies Garage on YouTube taught me that keeping a old Rolls or Bentley in perfect working order costs literally tens of thousands of dollars a year in parts and maintenance - nothing stays ‘fixed’ for very long. Someone should do a

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